8 Healthy Chocolate Dessert Recipes Without Guilt

2013/07/30

Looking for healthy chocolate dessert recipes? I love chocolate, but have done my best to avoid it. As it seems, I just look at it and my weight does a pre-chocolate jump…not to mention my cholesterol and sugar! But, there is a way to enjoy the pleasure of chocolate without the guilt…healthy chocolate dessert recipes are now a reality!

Do you love chocolate but limit your indulgences because of the calories and fat? Would you prepare more recipes with chocolate if you could find healthy chocolate dessert recipes that are delicious, too? Jennifer Iserloh, The Skinny Chef, can help you with that…

Two years ago I received a healthy diet cookbook, Secrets of a Skinny Chef by Jennifer Iserloh, to review. It seems oxymoronic when you hear “skinny chef” together, but Jennifer Iserloh is because she not only shares great advice (and healthy recipes), she follows it herself.

I’ve used her cookbook often since receiving it. The many family-friendly recipes in her 196-page book are easy to make with ingredients easily found in your local market. I’m going to skip to the healthy chocolate dessert recipes for this occasion! Yesterday was National Milk Chocolate Day. The following healthy chocolate recipes are guaranteed to take the guilt out of celebrating National Milk Chocolate Day with chocolate…or just treating you and your family to a delicious chocolate dessert whenever you get the craving…

Healthy Chocolate Dessert Recipes

Let’s start off with a healthy chocolate dessert recipe that can be enjoyed for breakfast, too. The Skinny Chef’s creamy chocolate shake is lower in fat and rich in calcium and cultures from Greek yogurt, plus the potassium from the banana (I for one wouldn’t limit this one to just breakfast!):

More Healthy Chocolate Dessert Recipes from Secrets of a Skinny Chef

If you like sink yourself into a moist, dense, yet soft chocolate cake, then this cake is the one! You save on calories and fat because it is so rich it doesn’t need icing. The raisings add a bit of chewy sweetness…it’s like a devil’s food cake without all the devilish fat.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch square pan with cooking spray.

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt onto a piece of waxed paper or aluminum foil. Set aside.

In a large bowl, beat the oil and sugar until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Mix in the egg whites and vanilla. With a wooden spoon, stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Fold in the prunes, walnuts, and morsels.

Spread the batter in the pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean or with moist-looking crumbs.

Cool 5 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Cut into 12 pieces and store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

It is amazing how easily our favorite chocolate desserts can be tweaked into healthy chocolate desserts by just switching to healthier ingredients…and still continue to be our favorites. Check out The Skinny Chef’s healthy chocolate dessert recipes and more website – I know you’ll enjoy it.

Involve your kids or grandkids in making these delicious healthy chocolate dessert recipes, too. And while you are having great fun together, remember to talk about the healthy ingredients and why they are so much better than ingredients in the original recipes. While you are waiting for the recipe to be done, look through some cookbooks or online recipes and come up with a healthier recipe to make together next time!

Grandmother blogger for the past 6 years with 4 grandchildren, 3 children, and 1 husband...and Buddy our rescued dog. By day I'm a high school special education teacher, by night I do homework and blog...but now I'm also working very hard at improving my health with new nutritional choices and exercise routine.